Infantile Figure

1200-900 BC (Early Formative)

33.3 cm 31.1 cm 16 cm

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Hollow figures portraying a seated person resembling an infant are unique to Olmec art, most examples coming from funerary and ritual deposits from the central Mexican highland states of Morelos and Puebla. Most were intentionally broken prior to burial in ritual caches. Some...

Sculpture

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Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John G. Bourne, 1970s, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2009, by gift.
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en
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3
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